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7 years ago

Stopping sim buttons getting small? Help please!

Hi guys, I've noticed that once my household gets to more than about 5 sims, the buttons for the individual sims near the speed times (I'm not sure what to call it) get really small. In old games they used to stack them, so you'd have 4 sims at the top and 4 at the bottom. But now, all 8 go in a row but get really, really small and I find it really fiddly trying to click on the sim that I want, and now I never have more than 5 sims in a household, which is annoying because I have to limit the number of children and pets I have.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to stop this from happening and keep the sims buttons the same size? Maybe to stack them on top of each other like the old sims games? I'd rather a bit more of my screen be taken up than not be able to click on the sim that I want easily. I'm not sure if this makes sense, but if it does to someone I'd really appreciate some help! :) I don't mind mods, so if there's one that does this, that would be great too!

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  • I think it depends on the resolution you play on. I've never seen it happen in my game, but I've always played on 1920x1080. And I rarely have large households.
    But I can imagine the images being shrunken if you play on a smaller resolution, so that all of UI still fits in there.
  • I have a monitor with 1600 X 900 resolution, and my icons get way too small. Admittedly, I have bad eyes and I need new glasses, but they're so tiny it's uncomfortable. I do enjoy playing large households, but the tiny icons have got to go.
  • yeah, im not sure how to fix that. it happens to me too, it drives me insane
  • It happens to me too but I don’t think there’s a way to adjust it other than modifying the game resolution.
  • Not the sim icons, but if I have my screen resolution on the recommended one (1920x1080) all the text on screen (menus, notifications etc) is so small I can't read it.

    I actually had to enlarge everything on windows 10 to 150% for the same reason.
  • "BabySquare;c-16963960" wrote:
    Not the sim icons, but if I have my screen resolution on the recommended one (1920x1080) all the text on screen (menus, notifications etc) is so small I can't read it.

    I actually had to enlarge everything on windows 10 to 150% for the same reason.


    I might have to give that a go, thank you :smile: My resolution is 1440x900 and is completely fine for everything, apart from the worlds most smallest sim icons :/

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